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FWIW banning or hobbling critical media outlets is typical for authoritarian governments.

A very small percentage will change their minds, but considering the way people usually think, the majority of the people who initially supported it won’t change their minds unless it directly...

A couple more finds from our local library book sale:
Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Patterns of Plausible Inference by George Polya.

Political Equality by Charles Beitz.

Research...

Firestorm has a pretty complicated backstory.

I love to see Greene made a fool of. It gives me hope she won’t re-elected.

This reminds me of a few years ago when some people protesting a pro-fascist, white nationalist march enrolled the...

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We should also consider that since media organizations are all about viewership they aren’t incentivized to air the interviews of the people who have non-controversial opinions.

The last 15 minutes of Kung Fu Hustle.
Actually the entire movie is awesome.

At the core is really the original disdain of anyone who isn’t a Protestant Christian of Anglo descent.

Ajax_x with the Wally Wood cover.

That’s really part of the problem. The sane ones need to stay and hold the line. Staying silent until things get too crazy and then leaving is cowardly. Stay and be the voice of reason even if seems...

I’d like to say that I’m surprised.

When I was a kid I liked shrimp. When I was a teenager I got a job at a restaurant where I occasionally had to de-vain and butterfly shrimp. After a few thousand I haven’t been able to stomach even...

I live on the border of Iowa and South Dakota. Her story absolutely fits the mentality of many rural hunters and farmers.
There are also many conservatives who don't agree with her point of view but...

I think she included the stories to virtue signal to her rural constituents who would, for the most part, sympathize with her and also stoke outrage among liberal people who abhor animal cruelty, the...

The essence of Democracy is the free exchange of ideas and opinions with the ultimate goal being a peaceful consensus. The First Amendment helps to preserve that, but the process is impeded and...

Do we currently have a situation where none of our regulatory agencies haven’t or will never mistakenly prosecute someone for violations? No, we do not. Nevertheless we still employ these agencies...

Court packing goes against decades of established democratic norms and is typically a move made by authoritarians.
When both parties abandon established norms things usually don’t end well.

The...

Ideally, we want to see praise and support from Republican voters.
GOP lawmakers need to see their constituents will come out for them if Trump vilifies them for doing their jobs.

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You’re making assumptions an agency similar to the EPA would operate and regulate the same way. Obviously it wouldn’t.

Any law or regulation can be abused depending on the circumstances and Trump...

I think Democrats should support him as well. It may serve to crack the wall of support Trump has in Congress at the moment.

European leaders do need to internalize the fact that Putin is a threat to all Europe and understand where they’ll be if Ukraine’s agricultural and mineral resources fall under his control.
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Problematic but not impossible. I think most of the arguments would be whether malicious intent is covered by the First Amendment.
How bad does it have to become before national security takes...

Well, we have an Environmental Protection Agency to prevent bad actors from polluting the physical environment maybe we need a similar agency to prevent pollution of our online environment.